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I am so excited! Today, I’m guest posting on one of my favorite blogs (pardon me while I have a freak out fan-girl moment… eeeekkkk!!), and I’m sharing a post I’m extremely proud of, how to create a capsule wardrobe for kids.
After years of trying to tame our laundry situation, I knew I had to do something different. Creating a capsule wardrobe has been a great experience, and you’ll never believe who else appreciated it! I hope you’ll stop by I’m an Organizing Junkie to check it out! (Just no judging the before pics mmkay.) 😉
If this is your first time visiting, welcome! I’m so glad you found me. I’m doing my best to become an organizing junkie, but I still have a lot of work to do.
I’ve been chronically my journey in my Declutterathon series, and I’ve shared the good, bad, and ugly in those posts so if you’ve ever struggled with clutter or needed a little inspiration, I hope they’ll help. There’s also a group of Declutterathon warriors sharing our struggles and supporting one another on facebook, and we’d love to have you join us.
I also have a pretty big sweet tooth…
…and an obsession with creating printables!
I hope you’ll stay a while and introduce yourself in the comments below. I’d love to meet you!
Nice post! I already avoid the high maintenance clothes for my kids (and myself). For us, though, fewer clothes means more laundry, or at least laundry more often, since there are fewer clothes to rotate through before they need washed. I’m not sure I understand how fewer clothes could mean less laundry, since kids are still wearing clothes every day that’ll probably need washed after each wearing. I only have two kids and find myself averaging a load of laundry a day.
Thanks, Beth! For us, fewer clothes means there are fewer things that I have to mess with. Less to wash, less to fold, less to manage. I’m looking forward to being able to wash all of my kids’ stuff in one load (per person) vs. the three or more per person it seemed we had before. It’s less overwhelming for me, and I’m able to see at a glance what they have and what’s missing as opposed to having to dig and search like before. We used to have so many clothes that we could go weeks between washes, but it would back up and become overwhelming. I hope that helps explain things from my point of view 🙂
I think it depends on your kids. My kids don’t play dress-up or change their clothes a thousand times a day, but some kids do; and if your kids are that way inclined, more clothes = more laundry because of the constant changes of clothes; whereas if the only have a few outfits to begin with, they can’t keep changing their clothes. Does that make sense?
I also have two kids and do a load of laundry maybe 5-6 times a week. We line dry everything which means we have to keep on top of it since the clothesline only holds a limited amount of laundry. I like keeping on top of it anyway; it doesn’t seem like a chore if it’s a load a day (or every couple of days) but if it’s 5 or 6 loads in one day, umph, laundry just seems insurmountable then!
Very true! I have a tendency to wash when we run out of clothes (bad system!), which makes laundry feel like a huge chore.
Emily! This is a super great idea. I just read your post, definitely think having a color scheme would help make the mixing and matching easier. It’s so great that your kids love it so much too, maybe this will inspire them for the future to keep the number of clothes down and the quality up! Also I know what you mean about high maintenance clothes, I don’t have time for that either, ugh! Great post – pinned!
Thanks, Sam! I was just in the laundry room today looking at our huge pile of clothes thinking, “I thought we’d have less laundry after packing up four bags of clothes.” We still have more work to do and things to get rid of, but overall things are getting better. 🙂
Clever idea! I’ve tried to do this for myself but never considered how helpful it would be for my kids too. Thanks! Pinning.
Thanks, Jelli!
Why did I never think of this solution. My husband and I have three children and they had so many clothes. I also wish I had know about thrift stores back then. Kids grow so quickly that is is really smart not to over purchase. I think back and the most efficient and fun time of our lives was when we lived in Hawaii and we only needed clothing for one season. Never actually thinking about it before, I now realize it was because we had less stuff to be responsible for therefore less cleaning and maintaining, we spent more time outdoors, and more time together. I do believe I want to go back to Hawaii!
Now I want to move to Hawaii!! (Not that it would take much arm twisting.) Such a great point about only have to have clothes for one season. I’ve always lived in areas that had 4 seasons, but 1 would really cut down on what we had to own and care for.